What Is It? - #3

I'll be darned. My dad used to sharpen pencils by trimming them with his pocket knife and then scrapping them on the side of our brick house. My mother bought him an electric pencil sharpener which he didn't like and wouldn't use.
 
These "daze", I find that both the pencils and electric sharpeners are beyond poor quality. They just plain suck. Every time I try to sharpen one, it gets some wood shaved off but doesn't make much of a point and if I keep at it, end up with a broken point that just falls off as soon as I try to write something.

Now, where can I gets me on o' these here machines???
 
That Guy said:
These "daze", I find that both the pencils and electric sharpeners are beyond poor quality. They just plain suck. Every time I try to sharpen one, it gets some wood shaved off but doesn't make much of a point and if I keep at it, end up with a broken point that just falls off as soon as I try to write something.
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I find that artist's pencils seem to still be made of a high quality, as opposed to the cheap ol' #2 Ticonderoga. Of course, you'll pay through the nose, but hey, what price can you put on creativity?

Now, where can I gets me on o' these here machines???
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The Early Office Museum has a lot of examples of early pencil sharpeners - I'm sure for the right price they'd be willing to part with one of them.
 

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